posted at 6:37 pm on August 31, 2007 by Allahpundit

Update: Major Garrett is reporting on Fox News right now that the GOP told him to resign or the following would happen:

1. The Senate GOP leadership will call on him to resign.
2. The Republican Senate Campaign Committee will deny him re-election funds and recruit a primary challenger.
3. The RNC will announce that Republicans nationwide want him to resign.

Update: The newest Republican senator will be Jim Risch. Let’s see if we can find out his position on amnesty with a little Google magic.

Gov. Jim Risch ordered state agencies Wednesday to stop hiring illegal aliens by using a federal Web site to verify that new employees are eligible to work in the U.S.

The outgoing Republican governor wants local governments and private businesses to also use the voluntary and free screening system as a way to crack down on undocumented immigrants who are taking jobs and benefits away from legal residents.

“Idahoans deserve to have their tax dollars spent on legal, United States citizens,” Risch said in announcing the executive order in Coeur d’Alene. “Jobs available in America and Idaho should be preserved for those who are legal.”

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Good. About time the Republican leadership shows a willingness to clean house. It’s just unfortunate that it takes a gay sex scandal and arrest to do it- for starters there’s a couple Alaskan pols that could use some purging too.

Why is the hypocrasy charge leveled only against social conservatives who act contrary to what they preach?

When am I gonna see people crying about the hypocrasy of “Cold Cash” Jefferson in Louisiana? Isn’t he a democrat? Isn’t one of his party’s main contentions that the wealth of the country must be redistributed to advantage the poor?
How can someone who holds this viewpoint accept $90,000 in an illegal manner and literally hide it in a freezer without being a complete hypocrite?

And make no mistake, it is the hypocrasy that is forcing Craig out, nothing else.

And make no mistake, it is the hypocrasy that is forcing Craig out, nothing else.

VolMagic on August 31, 2007 at 6:55 PM

True, if he were a Democrat all would be forgiven. But we don’t need him, because unlike them we have (or should have) standards and clean house.

It should be noted that even if every excuse Craig offered was 100% true, there is just no way to salvage your career after explaining to law enforcement, the media or any other person that you have “a wide stance.” It’s just over at that point.

I feel sorry for his innocent family. He has done them a disservice not to mention his constituents. We are in war time and we really can’t have people like this in charge of influencing law to do such things like this that may be blackmailed to him. When we catch people that do things like this, they need to step down for the good of the people.

Yaaaaaay!!! I didn’t know too much about Sen. Craid prior to this little incident, but let’s hope the Lt. Gov. does as good a job as the link AP gave us suggests he will.

During the time of the immigration debate most of us were saying the GOP needed to clean house, but I doubt many of us really expected it to happen. Now, amazingly, it looks like it might. Too bad it’s going to mean a gain in seats for the dems also.

Ted Kennedy drove a woman into a lake and left her to die. He got to stay. Jerry Studds had sex with a teenage male page. He got to stay. Bill Clinton had sex with an intern in the Oval Office. He got to stay. Bill Jefferson had $90,000 in bribe money in his freezer. He got to stay. Larry Craig touches a guy’s foot. He is forced to quit. There’s something wrong with that picture.

Ted Kennedy drove a woman into a lake and left her to die. He got to stay. Jerry Studds had sex with a teenage male page. He got to stay. Bill Clinton had sex with an intern in the Oval Office. He got to stay. Bill Jefferson had $90,000 in bribe money in his freezer. He got to stay. Larry Craig touches a guy’s foot. He is forced to quit. There’s something wrong with that picture.

SoulGlo on September 1, 2007 at 3:19 AM

correct

But this guy needs to go. Perv he is. The others need to go too. It’s time We the People demand that these freaks atleast be able to pass what mid level security clearance Engineers can pass. If my father had this in his past? He’d never had been allowed to do the things he did with Boeing and Nasa.

Bunch of crap.

WE need people to represent us in gov’t that won’t do things that can put them at odds to blackmail.

I dont get it. Gay marriage is ok and blah bah blah, but this dude admits to sparking a gay connection and we’re all flipping out. So, do we acccept gay-ism or dont we? Christ sake people. If this Senator had propsed marriage under the stall I guess it would be ok? Then what? Gay pepople dont have sex? This makes no sense. I still dont care for he whole gay agenda either, but whats the deal here? oh he was married already? ok. We’ll thats between him and is wife to sort out.

I can only suspect the Dems have some of these skeletons about to emerge. WHy else would we endorse tossing this guy out for this?

The only problem I have with this is the enthusiasm with which the GOP overall is going after him. I don’t recall this level of cacaphony with William Jefferson, Democrat, Louisiana. Our party won’t attack the dems about anything…where’s the hue and cry about Hillary’s fundraising? She’s selling us out to China and she hasn’t even been elected yet. Nothing. No, we’re too busy chasing the toilet sex queen around with torches and pitchforks. The dems could put Charles Manson in the senate and the silence from our party would be deafening. Pathetic.

I was on a Republican committee back in 1994, and there was all this discussion about term limits. I voiced an opinion that if the Republican’s won the House in Congress (which they did) that movement towards term limits would die, and it did. I was criticized for being too cynical. LOL

Have you noticed how hard he has been fighting in public actually for the length of his career but then he pleads guilty to make it go away?

Doesn’t fit his profile, if he’s willing to fight everyplace else why wasn’t he willing to fight for his innocence?
He’s been willing to put his fight for innocence out in the open before why hide this time?

“you solicited me” That’s not a defense, that’s an admission he knew the game to begin with.

Maybe it’s all a misunderstanding, if it is, it’s sure out of context.

To be honest, I never heard of him and don’t know anything about him. Don’t know if he was soliciting or not. Common sense says to me that you should be doing a lot more than tapping your foot or someone seeing your hand from a bathroom stall to be arrested. But, that’s just me. All I am certain about is don’t admit to anything just to make it “go away”.